Effect of Patient Navigation and Financial Incentives on Smoking Cessation Among Primary Care Patients at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While the proportion of adults who smoke cigarettes has declined substantially in the past decade, socioeconomic disparities in cigarette smoking remain. Few interventions have targeted low socioeconomic status (SES) and minority smokers in primary care settings.

Objective

To evaluate a multicomponent intervention to promote smoking cessation among low-SES and minority smokers.

Design, setting, and participants

For this prospective, unblinded, randomized clinical trial conducted between May 1, 2015, and September 4, 2017, adults 18 years and older who spoke English, smoked 10 or more cigarettes per day in the past week, were contemplating or preparing to quit smoking, and had a primary care clinician were recruited from general internal medicine and family

SUBMITTER: Lasser KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5820724 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature